The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.

Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories We would be more alive if we did more of this, and, Life would be more lovely if we did less of that. Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.